01/24/17 by Gandalf’s Staff lbk.tx. Years ago I figured Google out. It is a big brother thing. It is a government instrument, making lots of money, advancing Western influence and corporate control over the masses. Government has always strived to enslave the masses. This article by Julian Assange (link below) is not new but it confirms all that I suspected. It names the government and Google players and the historical events. The mass surveillance project was originated years ago at MIT. It’s design was to be able to monitor all communication in real time, simultaneously; allowing government to predict, control, and alter trends. It is difficult to pull off a revolution when the authorities know it’s coming before the masses even reach the fervent desire to resist. … Remember how recently the government started buying billions of rounds of hollow point, not for target practice, ammunition? That was a result of the annalists’ software predicting we the people were about to have an armed revolution. Every government agency under the sun, from the post office to the IRS began ordering ammo and body armor. They tried to take our guns and when that did not work they went for our ammo. They shut down all the lead smelters (Doe Run Lead Plant Shut Down to Effect ‘Back Door Gun Control …) and sold all the then available used brass casings to China. Then there was Jade Helm ‘Martial law exercise?’ Texas jittery over US military drills . The UN made it illegal to reload ammo by declaring it a terrorist endeavor, a restriction that could be applied in the US. NSA’s “collect it all, sniff it all, know it all, process it all, exploit it all.” computer programs were developed at MIT under the CIA’s direction. http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447

“It is almost too absurd to believe that it is true, but the House Judiciary Committee is considering H.R. 4919 that would allow for the Attorney General to authorize tracking chips to be inserted involuntarily into people who are incapacitated with Alzheimer’s and other fatal dementias,”

11/14/16 ‘Making a Murderer’s’ Brendan Dassey ordered released from prison“The court’s decision rests on a fundamental principle that is too often forgotten by courts and law enforcement officers: Interrogation tactics which may not be coercive when used on adults are coercive when used on juveniles, particularly young people like Brendan with disabilities,” Brendan Dassey is one of the subjects of the hit Netflix docuseries “Making a Murderer,”

09/09/16 Edward Snowden has rounded on his hosts, attacking the Kremlin’s human rights record and implicating Russia in two of the US government’s latest major security hacks. SNOWDEN HITS OUT AT RUSSIAN HOSTS…

05/23/16 Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department’s public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say. The investigation dates to at least last year and has focused, at least in part, on whether donations to his gubernatorialcampaign violated the law, the officials said. McAuliffe wasn’t notified by investigators that he is a target of the probe, according to the officials. “The governor will certainly cooperate with the government if he is contacted about it,” said Marc Elias, an attorney for McAuliffe’s campaign, in a statement to CNN.

This was truth-telling time for the Obama administration: Back on March 2, the State Department issued its annual International Narcotics Control … Gandalf notes: This f***ing war was the precursor to the loss of public liberty, Fools

03/25/16 OOPS An Illinois prosecutor says he has found “clear and convincing evidence” that a former police officer was wrongly convicted of the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old girl in what is believed to have been the nation’s oldest cold case to go to trial. Jack Daniel McCullough, a 75-year-old military veteran and former police officer from Seattle, was convicted in 2012 of the abduction and murder of Maria Ridulph from a street corner in Sycamore, Illinois. A court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

03/24/16 Butcher of Bosnia Radovan Karadzic, former leader of the breakaway Serb Republic in Bosnia, is guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the International Criminal Tribunal ruled Thursday. Nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison. The charge of genocide related to the massacre of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II. Karadzic was “consistently informed” about Bosnian Serb forces targeting civilians in Sarajevo, presiding Judge O-Gwon Kwok said as he delivered part of a long, complex verdict on 11 counts of war crimes relating to the Bosnian conflict from 1992 to 1995.

03/15/16 North Korea has sentenced American student Otto Frederick Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor for crimes against the state, China’s official Xinhua news agency reports. In an emotional press conference last month, the 21-year-old student at the University of Virginia admitted to attempting to steal a banner with a political slogan from his hotel in the North Korean capital. It is not known whether Warmbier made the admission under duress.

11/28/15 ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY Although, when I think about what was done to my family in Lubbock, Texas. That it soon became became public knowledge all the way to seats of power in Austin, nothing became of it. No public outrage. No going after the crooked scum in the DEA, the sheriff or Lubbock DA Travis Ware (a piece of trash) at the time of the events. The FBI declined (Lubbock Bureau Chief Bob Mathews) although the FBI was well aware of the circumstances, corruption and malfeasance. It was like 9 11. They knew but they were not sharing. “Out of our jurisdiction” I was told. Bullshit I thought.

No Defense Lawyer organization (cowards with too much to lose) rose to be my aide. They too feared the planting of drugs on themselves, knowing that there is no substantial defense against drug possession charges. It is guilty until proven innocent. Their word against that of the accused. The jury will believe the authoritarians inexplicably. They lie under oath on the witness stand. The dirty bastards that they are. Nothing arose to my naive expectations of a universal sense of justice. Just my tough dumb luck. Everyone, to my bewilderment, fell silent and withdrew in fear of the corrupt authoritarians and their reign of terror. Filthy scumbags with badges, guns, the law and gullible jurors on their side. Mandatory sentences and snitches trying to get off the hook, insures the defendants pitiful fate. To my fellow Americans: never live in fear of these bureaucratic bastards, even though they too are terrorist. Resist! It is up to us all to bring them to justice, pacify them and render them moot, awarding their assets to their victims.

Today with upcoming elections, we see that the real issues on the political scene are not being truthfully addressed, nor have they been acted upon. Open borders, balance of trade, prohibition, national debt, inflation, threatening enemies such as Iran, China and Russia; the defense of liberty, freedom of expression and religion, the right to bare arms, protection from unwarranted searches and seizures, private and secure communication: all under attack if not already a thing of the past: and not a word out of the masses. No anger, no nation wide demonstrations. It is lethargy, the precursor to the loss of public liberty. Fools! Those who are not willing to fight for their liberty do not deserve to keep it.

Now having had lived in Germany post WW2, I get it. I understand. I alone have stood for decades against the tide that is undermining the pillars of our great democracy. It’s lonely out here and I wonder if I will have the fight still left in me to resist the despots. … A fight that started when they kicked God out of my school, killed my president, and sent my friends off to die in a senseless, meaningless war in Vietnam. Only time will tell what will become of all of us and our great democracy, the union of the people by the people for the people. But in the meantime, today, with legislation like the Patriot Act, we find that we are all slaves under the prying eyes of Big Bother. United we are shackled with injustice for all, and this shall not prevail. … Gandalf Staff

10/28/15 A Nazi State of Affairs “So, if we lie to the government it is a felony. But when the government lies to us it is politics,” Bill Murry. Prosecutors recommend no more than six months in prison for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying about $3.5 million in hush money.

UN and the Pope
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In a sweeping address to the U.N. General Assembly, Pope Francis presented himself as a champion of the poor and dispossessed, urging world leaders to adopt concrete solutions to combat war, widespread poverty and economic destruction. Francis said the selfish pursuit of power and wealth is hurting the environment and the poor. “A selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged,” Francis said.

07//04/15 Geologist reflects on life behind bars in China
Catherine Matacic
When Xue Feng landed his first job after academia as a petroleum consultant in 2000, he was delighted. His new employer, Denver-based IHS, had high ambitions for the young geologist: overhaul how the company—a corporate intelligence firm—gathered oil and gas data on China. By 2005, Feng had snared a rare, unclassified database of 30,000 oil wells in China from a private broker. Disaster struck on 20 November 2007. Feng was on a business trip in Beijing when he was abducted from his hotel room. Chinese security personnel charged the Chinese-born U.S. citizen with selling state secrets. His chief crime: arranging for IHS’ purchase of the oil well database, which had been declared a state secret in 2007. In 2010, Feng was convicted and sentenced to 8 years in prison, including the 3 years he had already spent in detention. He was finally released in April—10 months before his sentence was set to expire—and immediately deported to the United States, where he rejoined his wife and two children in Houston. Feng spoke with Science about his time in prison and what other researchers working abroad might glean from his experiences.

Gandalf sees the Confederate Flag a symbol of State’s Rights. Today, we are all slaves to the U.S. government and big banks.About 57% of Americans say Confederate flag symbolizes Southern pride more than racism, a CNN/ORC poll says, though opinions are sharply divided by race. Among blacks, 72% see the flag as a symbol of racism while just 25% of whites agree. In the South, the racial divide is even broader. While 75% of Southern whites describe the flag as a symbol of pride and 18% call it a symbol of racism, those figures are almost exactly reversed among Southern blacks, with just 11% seeing it as a sign of pride and 75% viewing it as a symbol of racism.

Debra Milke speaks out after 23 years on death row Debra Milke, the Arizona woman who spent more than two decades on death row for killing her son before a court decision freed her from prison, proclaimed her innocence in the first extended comments she has made to the media since her release.

A NATION OF TRUCK DRIVERS « The Burning Platform Oh how the country has changed in the last 36 years. We were a nation of farmers, secretaries, and machine operators in 1978. The family farmer was still the backbone in the Northern Plains and Midwest. The internet didn’t exist, so letters needed to be typed, copies made, mail distributed, dictation taken, and coffee brewed. So every business was loaded with secretaries. The country still manufactured goods here in 1978. We sold them domestically and internationally. Globalization and NAFTA hadn’t become the buzz words of Ivy League educated MBA’s yet.

Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate ‘disappear’ with ‘Lord of the Rings’ sorcery. Texas boy suspended after bringing ‘ring of power’ to school … The ring little Aiden brought to school may not have been the true ring of power, but it had enough controversy to get him suspended from a Kermit, Texas, school.

LAUNDRY SLAVE LABORGandalf learned that in the past and what may be currently ongoing, a select group of Texas Tech employees and officials have been getting their laundry done free at the Montford Prison Laundry. Free laundry done for those that receive salaries in excess of $100,000.00 a year; prison sources say. This was disclosed while Captain David Hortman was in charge of the prison laundry. A copyright story by Gandal’s Staff and is an exclusive report. Hey David, you crooked adulterous bastard, you can kiss my ass. Dropped that dime on me yet? David Hortman is a piece of perverted trash, a former narc and a thief. Gandalf notes: discovered, his wire tap….BBC World Service – Assignment , Ireland’s Forced Labour … Mary Merritt grew up in an orphanage run by the Catholic Church in Ireland. One day, when she was 11 years old, she was so hungry she took apples from a nearby orchard. As punishment, she was sent away to a laundry……

Grand jurors charged Perry, 64, with abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, and coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony.Demanded drunk official step down… The first charge carries a punishment of 5-99 years and a fine of up to $10,000. The second charge is punishable by 2-10 years and a fine of up to $10,000.

The indictment stems from Perry’s threat last summer to withhold $7.2 million in state money from Lehmberg’s office unless she step down – a threat he later carried out by vetoing an appropriation in the state budget.VIDEO: Rosemary gets Revenge!

Mary Anne Wiley, General Counsel for Perry, said in a statement following the indictment: “The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution. We will continue to aggressively defend the governor’s lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail.”Says He Would Veto Again…

Immediately, after the indictment was announced, Perry, who is poised to make a second run for president, tweeted: “Help RickPAC elect candidates who support a strong border, new jobs, smaller gov’t, and fiscal responsibility.”

The special prosecutor in the case, San Antonio attorney Michael McCrum, said he was confident with the strength of the charges filed against Perry.

“There has been an immense amount of work that has gone into my investigation up until this point,” he told reporters after announcing the indictment. “I have interviewed over 40 people who were related in some way to the events that happened.”

He later added: “I looked at the law. I looked at the facts. and I presented everything possible to the grand jury.”

Asked about his thoughts of Perry’s ability to do his job as governor, McCrum said: “I took into account the fact that we’re talking about the governor of a state and a governor of the state of Texas, which we all love. Obviously that carries a level of importance, but when it gets down to it, the law is the law, and the elements are the elements.”

McCrum said he will speak with Perry’s lawyers Monday to arrange for the governor to be booked and formally notified in court of the charges against him.

Ray Sullivan, a former chief of staff to the governor who served as his spokesman when he ran for the 2012 presidential nomination, said of the indictment, “I think it certainly will be a big deal with the liberal media – Slate, Salon – and therefore for the national media. It is beyond ridiculous that Travis County is pursuing the governor, after letting the seriously drunk, police-disrespecting DA stay in office.”

Some Democrats were calling for Perry to step down.

“For the sake of Texas, Governor Perry should resign following his indictment on two criminal felony counts involving abuse of office,” said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio.

Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said: “Governor Rick Perry has brought dishonor to his office, his family and the state of Texas.”

Soon after Perry threatened to withhold the state money from Lehmberg’s office, Craig McDonald, head of the watchdog group, Texans for Public Justice, filed the original complaint against Perry. McDonald told local prosecutors that he had “good reason to believe” that Perry committed “one or more offenses … against the peace and dignity of the state.”

The money that Perry withheld from Lehmberg’s office was earmarked for the state’s Public Integrity Unit, which is housed in Lehmberg’s office. Perry’s veto forced Travis County taxpayers to partially fund the office, but several prosecutors and staff lost their jobs or had to be reassigned.

Lehmberg supporters said Perry’s actions constituted political retribution; Many Republicans have said the Public Integrity Unit has unfairly targeted their party for prosecutions. The Travis County District Attorney’s office has for decades been led by Democrats, including Lehmberg.

Had Lehmberg resigned, Perry would have named her replacement.

Travis County deputies arrested and charged Lehmberg with DWI in April 2013. She later pled guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail – an usually harsh sentence for a first-time drunken driving charge. She later prevailed in a civil lawsuit to remove her from office.

After his veto, Perry said, “Despite the otherwise good work (of) the Public Integrity Unit’s employees, I cannot in good conscience support continued state funding for an office with statewide jurisdiction at a time when the person charged with ultimate responsibility of that unit has lost the public’s confidence.”

George HW Bush birthday: five things about him you didn’t know (or forgot)“Under Nixon, Bush served as chairman of the Republican National Committee. President Ford made him ambassador to China, and later director of the Central Intelligence Agency.” As the Vice President he got caught selling cocaine in an Iran-Contra, dope for weapons deal. The CIA-Contra agent wasaccidentally busted by a proven corrupt DEA department in Lubbock, Texas. The Contra was jailed before it was discovered he was Bush’s secret CIA agent. Gandalf and Chris Alexander, a news director at TV13 KLBK, broke the story in Lubbock. The local sheriff then released the agent after receiving instructions from George Bush. KLBK’s attorney received a heavily redacted letter of explanation as to why the agent was released, signed by Bush. The CIA-Contra was never seen in court or Lubbock again. *Gandalf’s Staff Reports Iran–Contra affair –

SAY WHAT?Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for misuse of about $750,000 in campaign funds. The Illinois Democrat pleaded guilty in February to using campaign money for personal expenses that included buying Michael Jackson memorabilia, furs and a Rolex watch.

Italy’s Berlusconi sentenced in underage prostitution case Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of having sex with an underage prostitute and of abuse of power, a judge in Milan said today. The case centers on an exotic dancer nicknamed “Ruby the heart-stealer.” A panel of judges sentenced Berlusconi to seven years in prison and barred him from holding public office. Berlusconi can appeal.

The deputy speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, Nigel Evans, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, a source familiar with the arrest has told CNN.

Updated Bangladesh garment factory-collapse death toll climbs further to … – – – Violent clashes erupt in Bangladesh over building collapse tragedy
At least 50 more people have been found alive amid the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed Wednesday in Bangladesh, according to the Bangladesh fire service deputy director Maj. Mizamur Rahman. The newly discovered survivors were found inside a cavity after rescue workers dug a tunnel through the rubble of what had been the third floor, Rahman said. It will be several hours before rescue workers will be able to get to them. So far, more than 2,300 other people have been rescued from the wreckage; more than 300 died.CNN

Rosa Parks – Quiet Revolutionary Rosa Parks’s moment in history – refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 – is celebrated as the birth of the civil rights movement in the USA. Your World

Armstrong USADA action dismissed“This court is not inclined to indulge Armstrong’s desire for publicity, self-aggrandisement or vilification of defendants, by sifting through 80 mostly unnecessary pages in search of the few kernels of factual material relevant to his claims,” Sparks wrote.

Teen Enslaved Eight Years by Stepparents,…When Sead Makalic saw his neighbors’ stepdaughter being whipped as she was forced to pull their cart as though she were a horse, he was so shocked he reported it to the police in his village in northeast Bosnia.

NUMBER OF ‘NEAR POOR’ STARTLES CENSUS…When the Census Bureau this month released a new measure of poverty , meant to better count disposable income, it began altering the portrait of national need. Perhaps the most startling differences between the old measure and the new involves data the government has not yet published, showing 51 million people with incomes less than 50 percent above the poverty line. That number of Americans is 76 percent higher than the official account, published in September. All told, that places 100 million people — one in three Americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it.

Boston GlobeThe sucking sound continues. What is it that they do not get about the necessity of a favorable balance of trade? GandalfDespite divisiveness, Congress passes 3 trade pactsSeparations, Revolutions, Religions and State The truth is the State separated the commonwealth (Commonwealth of Nations – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) from God, the church, hope and the eternal art of faith. They took God and religions out of schools, leaving the children of the nation in a moral void. Hence separation of church and state and the state is most evil being void of morality and established by force. There is something else missing now in our schools. Something no longer taught, the sprit of revolution. “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry The Texas Independent reported yesterday that the suit from the atheist/agnostic group Freedom From Religion Foundation centers on the Aug. …More news for Texas freedom from religion » Talk about ingnorant Nazi bastards that are not of the American spirit, they want to take our freedom to excerxise our rights to worship as we please. If the courts fall for this song and dance it will be much to the ire of liberty. You fools cannot deny us of our liberty .Gandalf Freedom from Religion Foundation files suit to stop Texas …Freedom From Religion Foundation needs grammar lesson
Then the family unit was dissolved as both spouses needing work to pay bills and the ever increasing burden of feudalistic taxes, did thereby sacrifice the quality of family guidance that once influenced this nation’s future generations; seperating us from our own. Gandalf Separated at birth The midwives who demand cash before they hand babies over

Gandalf Staff
Mr. Williams says that “if there is anything good to be said about the Democratic White House and the [previous] Congress and their brazen attempt to take over the economy and control our lives, it’s that the tea party movement has come out of it. But we have gone so far from the basic constitutional principles that made us a great country that it’s a question of whether we can get back.” The State Against Blacks